Investigators at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY; Columbia University, NY, and 7 additional members of the FEBSTAT study team report the results of a prospective evaluation of the consequences of febrile status epilepticus (FSE) on the EEG of 199 children (median age 15.8 months; range 12-24 months).

Researchers at the University of Rome, Italy studied executive function and attention in 15 children with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) (8 boys, 7 girls), under treatment with valproic acid, compared to healthy controls.

Researchers at the University of Calgary, Canada report 2 adolescents with focal cerebral arteriopathy (FCA), a stenosis of the large or medium-sized blood vessels, with marked elevations in inflammatory biomarkers.

Researchers at Seoul National University and other centers in Korea examined the clinical characteristics of enteroviral meningitis in 390 infants and children; 16-18% were without CSF pleocytosis.

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Researchers at the University of Iowa and Washington University, St Louis, MO, studied the effect of the mutant Huntington gene (mHTT) on measures of growth in children at risk for Huntington disease (HD).

Researchers at University of Greifswald, Germany; and Cleveland Clinic, OH, studied the long-term seizure outcome in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) and identified factors predictive of seizure remission.

Researchers at Istanbul University, Turkey evaluated etiologic and risk factors affecting long-term neurologic outcome in newborns with neonatal seizures.

Researchers at Georg Augustus University Gottingen, Germany studied the genetics of alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) in 24 patients aged 8-35 years, using whole-exome sequencing to identify de novo mutations associated with the disease.

Researchers from Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC report the EEG and seizure manifestations in 2 patients with folate receptor autoimmune antibody-mediated primary cerebral folate deficiency.